Example sentences of "[vb past] when he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plight of Ian X , a 23-year-old Ayrshire man who has a mental age of six , surfaced when he appeared in court after getting into trouble for the first time with the police , and was sent to Barlinnie in the absence of any hospital or social work establishment willing to take him into care . |
| 2 | However , Honderich himself throws up difficulties with regard to his third point , in that Conservatism must have been at least partly responsible for the ‘ decent ’ society he found when he arrived in Britain thirty years ago . |
| 3 | He only stopped when he felt like it . |
| 4 | Gall equalised when he towered above the Derby defence to head in Munday 's free-kick , but Meade should have brought them level immediately after Gabbiadini 's first goal but slid the ball wide six yards out . |
| 5 | Jay says his greatest pleasure came when he played against two Grandmasters from Russia and one each from England and Romania , drawing twice and losing twice . |
| 6 | Having previously written some plays and two novels — The Jesuit ( 1832 ) and The Prelate ( 1840 ) — his break came when he returned from a continental tour in 1849 to write for the London Journal . |
| 7 | You could see her whole body shaking and I remembered Clement Moore 's The Night Before Christmas ; ‘ a right jolly old elf … with a little round belly that shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly . ’ |
| 8 | She shrieked when he went near her with the scissors , and had to be held down by the nurse so that he could take off about twelve inches of her golden curls . |
| 9 | The tragedy happened when he slipped on wet grass at the home of 75year-old retired Brigadier Tim Pierson in Fownhope , near Hereford . |
| 10 | Lowell 's conscience ebbed and flowed when he thought of Ballater and the old man 's anxiety . |
| 11 | That was the kind of man he was ; he raced when he felt like it . |
| 12 | Marc swivelled when he came to the window , his black shape outlined against the dying embers of the sun and his face in shadow . |
| 13 | McAllister swallowed when he bent between the girl 's extended legs , and Effie shrieked aloud , throwing herself about , trying to avoid his gently probing hands . |
| 14 | Earl Cowper , the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire , ‘ expressed the humiliation and shame which he felt when he reflected on his Church 's treatment of Bunyan ’ . |
| 15 | The uneasiness he felt when he got off the train returned . |
| 16 | A PRISONER in a police car died when he fell under its wheels while trying to escape . |
| 17 | And Craig Stuart , 36 , died when he plunged from a 12th floor hotel room in London . |
| 18 | But big-hearted Gerry laughed when he heard of the prank . |
| 19 | Springfield were the first band Young formed when he came to California , driving there in a hearse all the way from Canada . |
| 20 | That is , to say , he wanted to reveal to her , her sinful condition and need , and this he did when he speaks to her , about her sinful life . |
| 21 | She knew very little about him after all , had no idea what he did when he went to Dublin , or Kildare . |
| 22 | Well he , he did when he came in here , he picked up his and he looked round and it was all very different and then |
| 23 | Writing features for the Toronto Star Weekly was what he did when he returned to America in 1919. 1921 was the year he married . |
| 24 | The first thing Harold Wilson did when he arrived in office was to set up a Policy Unit inside Number Ten , to work on short-term , day-to-day problems . |
| 25 | WHEN bought Burston windmill he could never have envisaged all the changes which would take place — but he always chuckled when he looked at the map — geographically he had bought the high ground . |
| 26 | At a UK rap jam held at London 's Marquee this summer , they booed and hissed when he stepped on stage . |
| 27 | One or two of the healthier children cried when he came near them ; he moved resignedly away on these occasions , as though this reaction were entirely natural . |
| 28 | That is why Paul was so angry and distressed when he heard of the divisions in the Christian church at Corinth . |
| 29 | This refusal to fit in with the system continued when he returned to London , having jumped ship after a series of incidents — chopping down the house of someone 's aunt ; being technical supervisor on a failed bank robbery — had made him somewhat too conspicuous to the New Zealand authorities . |
| 30 | Yeah but then dad said when he came in that , he 'd heard that the middle of it had gone . |